Training Horses to Leap Obstacles, Tenth United States Cavalry

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Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Training Horses to Leap Obstacles, Tenth United States Cavalry
signed 'Frederic Remington' (lower center)
ink and wash on paper
18 ½ x 27 ½ in. (47 x 69.9 cm.)
Executed in 1891.

Provenance

James Graham & Sons, New York.
Mrs. Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, Madison, New Jersey.
Estate of the above.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 31 October 1975, lot 46, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

F. Remington, "Training Cavalry Horses to Jump Obstacles," Harper's Weekly, September 19, 1891, p. 709, illustrated.
P. Samuels, H. Samuels, ed., The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington, Garden City, New York, 1979, p. 85, illustrated.
P.H. Hassrick, M.J. Webster, Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors, vol. I, Cody, Wyoming, 1996, p. 385, no. 1268, illustrated.

Exhibited

West Point, New York, U.S. Military Academy, May-June 1979.

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Lot Essay

The present work was published as an illustration for Frederic Remington's article "Training Cavalry Horses to Jump Obstacles" in the September 19, 1891 issue of Harper's Weekly. Inscriptions describing the activities include remarks such as: '"Hit 'im again"--' (lower center), '"Good boy."--' (upper right) and '"Make 'im go--make 'im go?"--' (lower right). A previous owner of the present work, Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, was the niece of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and a noted collector of Western sculpture.

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